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Optical article and optical filter including same

a technology of optical filter and optical article, applied in the field of optical article and optical filter, can solve the problems of difficult fabrication of thin absorbing near-infrared blocking filter, limit of conventional near-infrared blocking filter, and inability to apply to high-resolution camera modules with five or more mega pixels, etc., to achieve suppressed transmittance, prevent lens flare, and high transmittance

Active Publication Date: 2020-03-05
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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides an optical filter that has high transmittance for light in the visible light region and prevents lens flare by suppressing the transmittance for light in the near-infrared range. This optical filter can be easily manufactured with a thinner imaging device and reduced production cost due to increased yield and productivity of the assembly process.

Problems solved by technology

However, a conventionally used reflective near-infrared blocking filter has a limit in that it cannot be applied to a high-resolution camera module with five or more mega pixels because a ghost phenomenon of taking an unintended image is severe due to internal reflection between an optical filter and a microlens of a CIS when an image is taken by an imaging device.
However, due to low durability resulting from the properties of a material, it is difficult to fabricate a thin absorbing near-infrared blocking filter, and the fabricated filter is fragile.

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[0123]According to a fabrication example of the present invention, an optical article having first absorption peak and second absorption peak was prepared as follows.

[0124]A near-infrared absorbing pigment A (QCR Solutions Corp., US) represented as Formula 1 and having the absorption maximum in the wavelength range of 700±5 nm, a near-infrared absorbing pigment B (QCR Solutions Corp., US) represented as Formula 1 and having the absorption maximum in the wavelength range of 720±5 nm, and a near-infrared absorbing pigment C (Carlit Co., Ltd., Japan) represented as Formula 2 and having the absorption maximum in the wavelength range of 1,097±5 nm were mixed as contents shown in Table 1 below on the basis of 100 parts by weight of a resin. At this time, a polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) resin was used as the resin, and cyclohexanone was used as an organic solvent. Afterward, the resulting mixture was stirred using a stirrer for 24 hours or more such that an absorbing solution was prepared....

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[0126]A first selective wavelength reflection layer having a dielectric multilayer film structure was formed by alternately depositing SiO2 and Ti3O5 on a first main surface of each of the optical articles prepared in Fabrication Examples 1 to 4 at a temperature of 110±5° C. using an E-beam evaporator. Afterward, a second selective wavelength reflection layer having a dielectric multilayer film structure was formed by alternately depositing SiO2 and Ti3O5 on a second main surface of each of the optical articles at a temperature of 110±5° C. using an E-beam evaporator such that optical filters having the same structure as shown in FIG. 2C were fabricated. The number of stacked layers and the thickness of each of the first and second selective wavelength reflection layers are shown in Table 2 below. In Table 2, the thickness represents the total thickness of the first or second selective wavelength reflection layer, and the unit is micrometer (μm).

TABLE 2First selectiveSecond selectiv...

experimental example 1

[0134]To evaluate transmittance according to an incident angle of an optical filter of the present invention, an experiment was performed as follows.

[0135]A transmission spectrum of each of the optical filters fabricated in Examples 2, 5 to 7 and Comparative Examples 4 to 6 was measured using a spectrophotometer in the wavelength range of 380 nm to 1,200 nm.

[0136]Transmittances for visible light and near-infrared light according to an incident angle were inferred by measuring transmittances for light having an incident angle of 0° and light having an incident angle of 30°. The results are shown in Table 7 and FIGS. 7 to 10. In Table 7, an average transmittance for visible light refers to an average transmittance calculated in the wavelength range of 430 nm to 565 nm, the maximum transmittance for near-infrared light refers to the maximum transmittance calculated in the wavelength range of 800 nm to 1,100 nm, and an average transmittance for near-infrared light refers to an average t...

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Abstract

The present invention relates to an optical article and an optical filter including the same. The optical filter: includes an optical article which has at least two absorption peaks, including a first and a second absorption peak, in the wavelength range of 380 nm to 1,200 nm by containing two or more kinds of near-infrared absorbing pigments, and thus shows a high average transmittance of 86% or greater for light having a wavelength in the visible wavelength range; can limit the maximum transmittance of light having a wavelength in the range of 800 nm to 1,100 nm below 0.5%, so as to prevent lens flare; and can reduce assembly defects due to flexure of an optical filter in the process of assembling the optical filter to an image capturing apparatus, thereby improving yield and productivity.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This present application is a national stage filing under 35 U.S.C § 371 of PCT Application No. PCT / KR2018 / 003953 filed on Apr. 4, 2018 which is based upon and claims the benefit of priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2017-0046181 filed on Apr. 10, 2017 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office. The disclosures of the above-listed applications are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to an optical article and an optical filter including the same and more particularly to an optical article for suppressing a transmittance of light in a wavelength range of 800 nm to 1,200 nm and an optical filter including the same.BACKGROUND ART[0003]In order to obtain a natural color image as seen by the human eye, an imaging device employing a solid-state imaging element, such as a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor (CIS), essentially requires an opti...

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IPC IPC(8): G01N21/359G02B5/22G02B5/20
CPCG01N21/359G02B5/223G02B5/208G01N21/31
Inventor CHOI, JEONG OGJUNG, JOON HOYANG, SEON HOJUNG, JIN HOKIM, JOO YOUNG
Owner LMS
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